Carrier for articles of merchandise



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rate rates CARRIER FOR ARTICLES 015 MERCHANDISE Robert E. Van Rosen, Butler County, George F. Arens, St. Bernard, and Glenn E. Struble, Hamilton, Ohio, assignors to The Gardner Board and Carton C0,, Middletovm, Ohio, a corporation of Ohio Application January 11, 1952, Serial No. 265,964

1 Claim. (Cl. 220-110) ture for glass tumblers or other frangible articles where a plurality of such articles are sold as a unit, the carrier serving as a container for the shipment and storage of the unit and also affording a convenient package whereby the purchaser of the unit can carry his purchase with him from the store, there being no necessity for the dealer to provide additional packing or wrapping. Also, in the hands of the dealer, our carrier provides an excellent medium for displaying the merchandise for retail sale. The carrier may be suitably decorated or printed with advertising matter, and its construction permits a perspective purchaser to view the merchandise without having to remove it from the carrier. When a sale is made, the purchaser simply has to pick up the filled carrier and carry it away with him, there being no need for additional handling of the merchandise by the dealer. Of course, should the purchaser desire the package wrapped, this may be done simply and without having to assemble the articles and pack them to prevent possible breakage.

While carriers of this general type have been heretofore proposed, it is a principal object of our invention to provide improvements in such carriers which simplify their construction, provide greater strength and durability, while at the same time providing greater economy in that the carriers employ a minimum amount of board and can be completely folded and glued on a straight line gluer by means of stationary sweeps.

Another object of our invention is the provision of a one piece collapsible carrier which is simple and easy to erect.

Yet another object of our invention is the provision of a sling type carrier of improved construction which, unlike other sling type carriers of which we are aware, does not have the strains transmitted to the bottom element from the central partitions solely by means of outer wall elements. Instead, in our construction the central partition and handle structure extends to and is fastened to the center part of the bottom panel, thereby strengthening the bottom panel and removing a part of the strain from the side walls.

These and other objects of our invention, which will be set forth hereinafter or will be apparent to one skilled in the art upon reading these specifications, we accomplish by that structure and arrangement of parts of which we shall now describe an exemplary embodiment. Reference is hereby made to the drawings, which form a part hereof, and in which:

Figure l is a plan view of a paperboard blank for our carrier.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the blank after initial folding of the parts.

Figure 3 is a plan view of the blank in finished form atent C 2,711,843 Patented June 28, 1955 as the carriers will be shipped from the box manufacturer to the user.

Figure 4 is a sectional view taken along the line 4-4 of Figure 3, illustrating the manner in which the carrier is erected.

Figure 5 is a view similar to Figure 4 showing the carrier in erected condition.

Figure 6 is an end elevation of our carrier in erected condition.

Figure 7 is a view similar to Figure 6 showing the carrier in erected form and holding the articles to be carried therein, the dotted line illustrating the manner in which the handle portion of the carrier may be folded to overlie the articles for stacking purposes.

Figure 8 is a perspective view of the carrier illustrating in particular the construction of one side of the carrier.

Figure 9 is a partial perspective view similar to Figure 8, but illustrating the construction of the opposite side of the carrier and the manner in which articles are retained in the carrier.

As seen in Figure 1., the blank is an elongated and substantially rectangular piece of boxboard divided by transverse cutscore lines to present a bottom wall panel 1, side wall panels 2 and 3, and top wall panels 4 and 5. The bottom wall panel is demarked from the adjacent side wall panels by cut-score lines 6 and 7, and the top wall panels are demarked from the side wall panels by cutscore lines 8 and 9. At one end of the blank a longitudinal partition extension 10 is articulated to the top wall panel 4 along the cut-score line 11, and a glue flap 12 is articulated to the opposite side edge of the longitudinal partition extension 10 along the cut-score line 13. At the opposite end of the blank, a handle part 14 is articulated to the top wall panel 5 along the intermittent cut-score line 15. A mating handle part 16 is articulated to the opposite side edge of the handle part 14 along the cut-score line 17, and the handle parts 14 and 16 are provided with mating score lines 18 and 19 which, as will be explained more fully hereinafter, permit the handle parts to be folded over the articles in the carrier.

In the blank illustrated in Figure 1, spaced apart circular cut-outs 20, 21 and 22 are provided in the top wall panel 4, and spaced cut-outs 23, 24 and 25 extend through side wall panel 2 and open into the cutouts 20, 21 and 22 respectively. Side wall panel 5 is provided with circular tabs 26, 27 and 28 corresponding in size and location to the cut-outs 20, 21 and 22 in top wall panel 4, and the tabs 26, 27 and 28 are formed as integral extensions of part 14, being joined to the bottom edge of handle part 14 along the line of the intermittent cut-score line 15. The tabs 26, 27 and 28 thus provide cut-outs 29, 30 and 31 in the top wall panel 5. Also, the side wall panel 3 is preferably provided with cut-outs 32, 33 and 34 which correspond in location to the cut-outs 23, 24 and 25 in side wall panel 2, excepting in this instance the cut-outs terminate short of the top edges of the side wall panel 3. The handle parts 14 and 16 are provided with mating hand holes 35 and 36 respectively.

To form the blank of Figure 1 into a knocked down carrier structure, the blank is first folded along the cut-score lines 8 and 17, suitable stripes of adhesive 37 and 38 having first been applied to the glue flap 12 and the handle part 16, respectively, the glue stripe 38 lying to the inside of the score line 19. Thus, when the blank is folded to the position illustrated in Figure 2, the glue flap 12 overlies the bottom panel 1 and is adhesively secured thereto, and the handle part 16 overlies the handle part 14 and is secured thereto by means of the adhesive stripe 38.

To complete the formation of the knocked-down carrier, the blank of Figure 2 is folded along the cut-score As seen in Figure 4 the knocked down container H blank can be erected simply by the user inserting his thumb in the cut-out 33 so as to lift the side wall panel 3 free and at the same time inserting the index finger of the other hand between the handle panel 14-16 andtop panel 4. By bringing the two hands together the carton will be set up, as illustrated by the arrows in Figure 4. As the side wall is erected and the top wall 4 moved away from the underlying longitudinal partition extension 10, the tabs 26, 27 and 28, which are adhesively secured to the longitudinal partition 10, are

caused-to part from thetop Wall 5 thereby exposing the article receiving cut-outs 29, 30 and 31.

When erected, the carrier is ready to receive a plurality of articles, such as the tumblers A illustrated in Figure 7. As illustrated in that figure, the mating cutscore lines 18 and 19 in the handle parts 14 and 16 respectively, are so positioned that they lie off the top edges of the tumblers A, thereby permitting the portions or" the handle parts lying beyond the cut-score lines to be folded over the articles on one side of the carrier as illustrated in dotted lines in Figure 7. Thus, the top of the filled carrier will present a substantially smooth surface for stacking the filled carriers one on the other. Also, with the handle parts disposed in this manner, the carrier may be wrapped as such, providing a neat, rectangular package.

Opposite sides of the carrier are seen in perspective in Figures 8 and 9, and in the latter figure it will be noted that the cut-out 25, for example, enables the purchaser to obtain a full length view of the tumbler A. Since customarily only one side of the carrier will be seen by the purchaseras where the carrier is sitting on the dealers shelf, the opposite side of the carrier need not have the full length cut-outs, and cut-outs such as 32, 33 and 34 will sui'fice, thereby adding greater A strength to the opposite side wall. If desired, the cutouts on both sides of the carrier may be of less than full length, or for that matter the cut-out in the side wall may be eliminated entirely from one side of the carrier without departing from the spirit of our invention, The cut-outs are, however, preferred since they provide an excellent display medium for merchandising during retail sale.

While we have described a carrier suitable for tumblers in which the top panels of the carrier are configured to conform to the tumblers, it will be understood that for articles of different shapes, the cut-outs may be configured as may be required.

Modifications may be made in our invention without departing from the spirit of it. Having thus described our invention in exemplary embodiments, what We claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A one-piece paperboard carrier for a plurality of annular articles comprising a full-width unscored bottom panel, side wall panels articulated to the opposite side edges of said bottom panel, top wall panels articulated to the top edges of said side wall panels, said top wall panels extending inwardly and meeting centrally of said carrier, a central longitudinal partition panel articulated to the inner edge of one of said top wall panels and extending downwardly centrally of said carrier to said bottom panel, a glue flap articulated to the lower edge of said central longitudinal partition panel, said glue flap being adhesively secured to said bottom panel centrally thereof, an extension articulated to the inner side edge of the other of said top wall panels, said extension extending upwardly therefrom and comprising a handle forming part, a second handle forming part, articulated to the top edge of said first named handle forming part and folded to lie in contacting relation xith said first named handle forming part to form a double thickness handle, mating hand-hole openings in said handle forming parts, integral tab portions extending downwardly from the bottom edge of said first named handle forming part, said tab portions being struck from the top wall panel to which said first named handle forming part is articulated .and defining annular cut-out openings therein, said tab portions being adhesively secured to said longitudinal partition panel so as to constitute said first named handle forming part, an extension of said longitudinal partition panel, corresponding annular cut-out openings in the other of arid top wall panels, spaced apart vertically disposed cut-out openings in said side wall panels in alignment with the cut-out openings in said top wall panels, the cut-out openings in the side wall panel adjacent the top wall panel from which said tab portions are struck extending upwardly from the bottom edge of said side wall and terminating short of the upper edge thereof, the cut-out openings in the other of said side wall panels extending upwardly from the bottom edge thereof and opening into the annular cut-out openings in the adjoining top wall panel.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS l,636,508 Goodyear July 19, 1927 2,337,197 Holy Dec. 21, 1943 2,371,312 Potter Mar. 13, 1945 2,421,850 Ringler June 10, 1947 2,433,676 Ringler Dec. 30, 1947 2,435,178 Marshall Jan. 27, 1948 2,609,981 Bolding Sept. 9, 1952 

